The Slogan That Left the Room

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The Slogan That Left the Room

Mara came back to the staff kitchen for one reason. She wanted her tutor's original line on the noticeboard before the open evening, because the shortened one made him sound careless.

The printout was already pinned, and already wrong. He had written that an idea survives only if someone will carry it and let it change. The poster kept the first half. Under a photograph of smiling students it said, An idea survives if someone carries it. Change was gone. So was the cost.

"People read that one," said Lewis, rinsing mugs. "The long version sits in the handbook. Nobody quotes a handbook in a corridor."

"They are quoting a sentence he did not write."

"They are quoting the part they can finish." Lewis turned the tap off. "I tried the full line at the last briefing.